Logo
My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think

My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober. – G. K. Chesterton

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Patriotism
category

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. – Clarence Darrow

Category:
Patriotism

Love of country is like love of woman — he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. – Felix Adler

Category:
Patriotism

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing. – Janet Suzman

Category:
Patriotism

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. – Michael Ignatieff

Category:
Patriotism

Random Quotes

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet," Essays, Second Series, 1844

Category:
USA Patriotic

Night and morning are making promises to each other which neither will be able to keep. – Richard Shelton

Category:
Hmmm

I just want to keep writing music. – Lady Gaga

Category:
Music

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours. – Arabella Weir

Category:
Fear